Lawyer: New evidence points to another killer
Posted on January 18, 2008
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FORT COLLINS, Colorado (CNN) — Special prosecutors in Colorado on Friday said they will recommend a new trial for a man convicted in the murder of a woman whose sexually mutilated body was found near his home more than 20 years ago. Tim Masters was 15
Abu Dhabi fund hires media experts
Posted on January 18, 2008
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Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, has hired Burson-Marsteller, the US public relations company, to handle its communications amid rising scrutiny of petrodollar flows into western economies.The secretive fund,
US offers Pakistan help against attacks
Posted on January 18, 2008
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A senior American military commander will visit Pakistan this month to discuss the growing unrest in the country and possible deeper US military engagement, according to senior Pakistani and western officials.Admiral William Fallon, head of US Central
Helios at risk from Kenya boycott
Posted on January 18, 2008
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A private equity group based in London risks becoming caught up in the Kenyan political crisis after the country’s opposition leader called for a boycott of a bank in which it is the largest shareholder.Helios Investment Partners paid KSh11bn ($176m) for
Dozens die in Iraq cult clashes
Posted on January 18, 2008
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The governor of Basra province said police had surrounded the gunmenDozens of people have been killed in clashes between members of a Shia cult and police in the southern Iraqi cities of Nasiriya and Basra, police say. Street warfare erupted as members
Finland and EU embroiled in ‘wolf wars’
Posted on January 18, 2008
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‘); E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size SUOMUSSALMI, Finland: Close to the tiny Finnish village of Saaravaara bloody tracks lead through the snow to the frozen carcass of an eight-month-old
Frontier Insurgency Spills Into Peshawar
Posted on January 18, 2008
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There is a sense of siege here, as the Islamic insurgency pours out of the adjacent tribal region into this city, one of Pakistans largest, and its surrounding districts. The Taliban and their militant sympathizers now hold strategic pockets on the citys
Four killed in tourist attack in Yemen
Posted on January 18, 2008
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Gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists in eastern Yemen on Friday, killing two Belgian women, their Yemeni driver and a Yemeni man believed to be a tourist guide, a security official said. A Belgian tourist and a Yemeni were wounded in the incident,
World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer Dies
Posted on January 18, 2008
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Bobby Fischer, the reclusive American chess master who became a Cold War icon when he dethroned the Soviet Union’s Boris Spassky as world champion in 1972, has died. He was 64. Fischer died Thursday in a Reykjavik hospital, his spokesman, Gardar
Thirteen die in Iraq cult clashes
Posted on January 18, 2008
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At least 13 people have been killed in clashes between police and members of a Shia cult in the southern Iraqi cities of Nasiriya and Basra, police say. The fierce fighting began after members of the Soldiers of Heaven launched apparently co-ordinated
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